The Big Duck marketing agency refused to work on behalf of the Shalom Hartman Institute, claiming that their commitment to “fighting oppression” leads them to question “working with organizations with significant programming in Israel.”
Farra Trompeter, Big Duck’s co-director, told Dorit Rabbani, Hartman’s North America communications director, last week that the firm would not work with Hartman because Big Duck staff had concerns about the Hartman Institute’s activities in Israel.
“Being more vocal and committed to fighting oppression has led us to more active questioning of working with organizations with significant programming in Israel, among other issues, and in those cases, we have mutually agreed that it does not make sense to work together,” Trompeter said in an email to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
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Read more at the Jerusalem Post, and the response from the Shalom Hartman Institute.